How to Generate Open Graph Meta Tags

What the Open Graph Tag Generator does

The Open Graph Tag Generator turns page metadata into escaped Open Graph markup for a web page. It is useful when you want a ready-to-copy group of tags for a page title, description, optional image, page URL, site name, content type, and locale.

A non-empty title is the required starting point. The description element is included with the title in generated markup, while image, URL, and site-name elements depend on whether you provide their corresponding values. The generator assembles the markup from the text you enter; it does not establish whether an image or page URL is reachable or how a social platform will render the result.

How to generate Open Graph markup

1. Open the Open Graph Tag Generator.
2. Enter a page title. Use a non-empty value because markup is produced only when the title is truthy.
3. Add the page description. This is used with the title in the generated markup.
4. Optionally enter an image URL, the page URL, and a site name. Each value controls whether its related element is included.
5. Review the type and locale fields. If you leave them at their defaults, generated markup uses website as the type and en_US as the locale. Replace those values when your page needs different text.
6. Generate the markup and copy the result into the appropriate metadata area of your page.

Values inserted into the generated markup are HTML-escaped. Enter the text and URLs as you want them represented, then review the output for the intended wording and optional elements before using it.

How to read the generated result

A successful result contains the title and description elements. It also contains a type element and a locale element, using website and en_US by default when those fields are not changed. An image, URL, or site-name element appears only when its matching input has a value.

If the title is empty or otherwise falsy, the computation can succeed without producing markup. That outcome means the required title input was not supplied in a usable form; it does not mean that optional fields were rejected. HTML escaping may change characters such as angle brackets or ampersands in the output so they are represented safely as markup text.

The generated result is assembled from the supplied metadata. Use the result to inspect the tags you plan to add, but do not treat it as confirmation that a URL works, an image is available, or a social platform will display the page in a particular way.

Worked example

A hiking site is preparing Open Graph metadata for its Summer Trail Guide page and wants title, description, image, URL, site name, type, and locale represented in one generated result.

Enter the title “Summer Trail Guide,” a description, an image URL, the page URL, and the site name “North Ridge.” Leave type and locale at their defaults, then generate the markup.

The generated result contains title and description elements, plus image, URL, and site-name elements because those values were supplied. It also contains type website and locale en_US when those defaults were left unchanged.

Limitations

• The generator assembles escaped markup from supplied metadata. The available behavior does not establish that URLs or images are reachable, or that a social platform will render the result in a particular way.

Common errors

• No markup appears: The title is empty or falsy. Enter a non-empty page title, then generate the result again; adding optional fields alone does not satisfy the title requirement.

FAQ

What input is required to generate Open Graph markup?

A non-empty title is required for markup to be produced. The generated result includes title and description elements when that condition is met.

Which optional fields add elements to the result?

Only when you provide an image URL, page URL, or site name does the corresponding optional element appear in the generated markup.

What are the default type and locale values?

When you leave those fields at their defaults, the generated markup uses website for type and en_US for locale.